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I'd say that I want the villains to win in pretty much any Orson Scott Card novel, but that's only mostly true. While his protagonists (especially recently) have a tendency to be insufferable jerks, some of his earlier novels have modestly sympathetic main characters. One that I will single out for some opprobium is Folk of the Fringe (read review), in which the main characters are odiously sanctimonious Mormons living in a post-apocalyptic world. If Card had not exposed himself as an intolerant gay-bashing statist, I'd think that Folk of the Fringe was a parody intended to show how awful rule by Mormons would actually be. Sadly, it seems that he was actually serious. But to get back to answering the question at hand, I just can't think of any "heroic" Mormon character in the book that I don't want to shoot in the head and leave for the vultures.
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I'm quite sad that books like this make "Mormons" look bad. I'm a Mormon and in no way do I think gay bashing is appropriate. I may not agree with the lifestyle, but people don't agree with mine either. We can still be civil and even friendly to each other. I have a few friends and even a niece that is gay and I treat them just like I do my other friends. Anyway, I hope the book didn't leave a bad taste of "Mormons" because he's just one person and there are many of us out there that don't feel the same way as he does.
ReplyDelete@Jenni Elyse: I have had several Mormon friends, almost all of whom have been very nice people to know. But Card seems to have run off the rails in the last decade or two with his anti-gay screeds and his praise of government control over people's lives.
ReplyDeleteFor a recent example, see Card's revision of Hamlet in which he ascribes all of the problems the characters face to the supposed evils of homosexuality. Apparently the trouble is Card's version of the play is that Hamlet's father was gay, and by having homosexual relations with most of the other characters somehow "turned" them all gay. Or something. None of it makes sense.
I haven't read any of these books but I completely see your point.
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ReplyDeleteI'll also use this post to make a correction to my last post: The sentence that begins "Apparently the trouble is Card's version of the play is that Hamlet's father was gay,..." should actually read "Apparently the trouble in Card's version of the play is that Hamlet's father was gay,..."
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